A Princess For Christmas (Of The Dreams We Seek)

Thirty- four

The flight landed on time. And as she expected Avi was waiting for her. He hugged her and she hugged him back. She cried once again. "Oh Avi, why do heartbreaks are so painful?" She asked. "come on I will take you for some tea and then home, your own kingdom is awaiting Your Highness and you don't need a crown to rule it." That is why she liked him so much. 

He managed to say right things at the right time and that always lifted up her spirits. Suddenly her phone rang. She picked up and her breath hitched hearing the voice "Avni, are you pranking me? you are, aren't you? Princess, look enough of your pranks, I know you said you will be here next to me, you said you will be here, and you never broken a promise before. Have you, then why now?" Avni looked at Avi. 

He took the phone and put it on speaker. "Princess please say you are just around the castle hidden in the passageways, somewhere aren't you, or maybe you are with Lace and Poseidon." Avi shook his head. "This is wrong number Mr. there is no Avni here." Avi said. "No, it is not, it is not wrong number. You are that guy, you think you can take her away, you cannot, I will not let you take her away. She is mine, she is my princess, she is my best friend. You cannot just..."

 "Shut up, now I am in my country, and Your Royal Highness, you hold no jurisdiction here, I am your nothing, do not try to contact me again." She shouted. "Princess is that you, you know I never meant what I said don't you? You know right I can fuel my jet and I can come to you, I will, I will come to you" Avni had enough of it. 

"Your crown doesn't allow that Your Royal Highness. Your new found fiancée will not let you, so I suggest that you live your royal life, and let me live my ordinary one I already wasted two months and if your doctors are right I don't have two years more like eighteen months to live and I like it to be peaceful thank you very much." And she cut the call.

 Afterwards she broke into tears sobbing harder. Avi held her closer. "Let it out, let it all out. Don't worry, I am here next to you. I will always be next to you Avni. Because no matter what anyone claims to be in your life, I know who I am, your best friend and It cannot change because of a Crown. It will never change." He whispered shaking her back and forth holding her in his arms.

Callahan threw the phone against the wall smashing it in pieces. But then he ran towards it remembering that it had last of her pictures he ever took he tried to salvage the same. But it was in pieces. He opened the folder with shaking hands looking at her picture. Now looking slashed because of his broken screen.

 "I am sorry, I am sorry princess, I am so sorry, I have broken you. I have broken your soul, I have broken your spirit haven't I? you were right if you have never met me, if you have never came here, if you never kept my sister's wish, if you haven't tried making me learn how to smile, nothing would have been ever ended as it has now." He said to himself.

 And then he asked "Why I cannot do anything alright; I wish I never came to this place; I wish you never died, I thought grownups were supposed to know when they are feeling ill and when it is the right time to quit. Why didn't you? Why didn't you? Why you have left me alone? First you, then My Princess, no she didn't give up on me, she was forced to give up on me, everything was going fine, everything was going alright and then... am I this unlucky? Do I not deserve to be happy?" He asked to his reflection he see in the mirror. 

But all that mirror held was a sardonic smile on his face. Callahan left as soon as the court session was over. He didn't talk to anyone, he just walked towards his wing when his feet carried him to her room. A maid was carrying somethings out. "What are you taking out? Who gave you permission to touch her things?" The maid sensed he was angry.

 "Princess Margret said she is moving into the chambers." She spoke in merely audible tone. "Where is she?" He asked angrily. She pointed towards Avni's room. He looked at her "Take those back from where you had taken them do you understand me and tell the guards to bring a pad lock now" His tone was cold that made the maid run without asking question.